Delay is deadly: what Covid-19 tells us about tackling the climate crisis | Jonathan Watts

Rightwing governments have denied the problem and been slow to act. With coronavirus and the climate, this costs liveso Coronavirus latest updateso See all our coronavirus coverageThe coronavirus pandemic has brought urgency to the defining political question of our age: how to distribute risk. As with the climate crisis, neoliberal capitalism is proving particularly ill-suited to this.Like global warming, but in close-up and fast-forward, the Covid-19 outbreak shows how lives are lost or saved depending on a government's propensity to acknowledge risk, act rapidly to contain it, and share the consequences. Continue reading...